Went Through it With Brad

Rowan Kerr rowan at standardinteractive.com
Fri Nov 10 19:07:08 UTC 2006


On 11/10/06, Pete Rowley <prowley at redhat.com> wrote:
> Johannes Ernst wrote:
> > In my experience, one should use a human-comprehensible versioning
> > scheme, but software should only do equals/does not equal comparisons;
> That works if you don't believe in backwards compatibility :)

All you have to do is match against a list of each known version
string. OpenID will have to be a bit careful about when these strings
change though. Having to do 2.0.1patch4, etc, etc every few months
would be un-fun.

-Rowan



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